Freedom Quotes - Page 8

• A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

  John F. Kennedy

  Perfect, Democracy, Easy

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  It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Fool, Vegan

  "Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers: Troisième Entretien". Book by Voltaire, 1767.

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• To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Essence, Honor And Respect, Being True

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.30, Best Books on

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• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

  William Glasser

  Fun, Survival, Needs

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• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

  Learned Hand

  Love, Hate, Lying

  "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Thinking, Being Different

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• We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Pay, Payment, Willing

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

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• The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

  George H. W. Bush

  Change, Hope, Our World

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• Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Tyrants, Slave Owners, Political

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• If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Relationship, Hate

  Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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• ...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

  Pablo Picasso

  Plato, Mean, Artist

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• I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspiring, Leadership, Equality

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• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, 4th Of July

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

  John Adams

  Children, Patriotic, Liberty

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.197

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• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

  James Russell Lowell

  Law, Atheism, Literature

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

  George Orwell

  Country, Law, Numbers

  George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.501, epubli

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• the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Average, Liberty

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• The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Libertarian Party

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

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• At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Wish, Liberty

  "Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments".

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• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

  Charles Dickens

  Butterfly, Deny, Mankind

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

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• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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• I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Paris unity march shows we must protect freedom of expression, not curtail it further" by Julie Posetti, January 11, 2015.

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• Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Inspirational, Nothing To Lose, Left

  "Me and Bobby McGee". Song by Kris Kristofferson, www.esquire.com. July, 1969.

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• The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Government, Doe, Speech

  International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee, 505 U.S. 672, caselaw.lp.findlaw.com. June 26, 1992.

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